Can YOU Draw the Walking Dead?

From Sourcebooks:

"In Ty Drago's upcoming thriller THE UNDERTAKERS: RISE OF THE CORPSES, twelve-year-old Will Ritter battles an invasion of animated Corpses that only he and his friends can see. Corpses hide in plain sight and can be disguised as anyone: teachers, doctors, policemen ... anyone at all.

Sourcebooks Inc. and Ty Drago are announcing a drawing contest for anyone aged 8+. The rules are simple: draw in black and white OR color, a rotting cadaver pretending to be a normal person. No rags on these dead guys. Suits. Uniforms. Swim trunks. Hoodies. Let your imagination soar! The grosser and scarier, the better!

The winner will receive a signed Advanced Reading Copy of THE UNDERTAKERS: RISE OF THE CORPSES. He or she will also have her winning drawing displayed on the front page of the UNDERTAKERS website.

Contest runs from March 1 through March 31, 2011. For more information, visit www.myTeenFire.com.

TO ENTER:

• You must be over 8 years old



• You must love "zombies" and want to draw them



• You must submit an original drawing by uploading it into the contest forum on myTeenFire. It can be created on your computer or drawn and scanned.



• Max size should be 600 by 800 pixels



• Only one entry per artist please!



• All entries MUST be submitted by 11:59 pm on March 31, 2011"

Do You Love Zombies?

Are you obsessed with zombies? Do you actively plan what you would do during a zombie attack? Or do you like to dress up and pretend to be one? Or do you just like the way they dance?

Whatever your reason for loving zombies, this weekend we invite you to come to the Mountlake Terrace Library to celebrate zombies in all their undead glory! How do we plan to do this? With a Zombie Thriller Party!

• Zombie costume contest - with prizes!

• Play zombie games:
• Last Night On Earth - The Zombie Game
• Zombie Fluxx
• Zombies!!!

• Talk about your favorite zombie books and movies

• Learn the moves to the Thriller dance, loved by zombies everywhere.

• At 4pm, take part in Thrill the World, a WORLDWIDE celebration and simultaneous dance of Michael Jackson's Thriller!

This Saturday, October 23rd from 1-4:30pm at the Mountlake Terrace Library!

Special Halloween Weekend Book Give Away

Hey everybody!

This weekend we have a particularly awesome mini-contest - we are giving away two copies of the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Deluxe Edition! This version has cool paintings by Roberto Parada, a lovely faux-leather binding, and a very cool cover...making for a really nice zombie collectors edition.

How can you win? Post a link to your favorite bit of zombie culture, be it a clip from a movie, a t-shirt, a book, or a photo of yourself dressed up, and tell us why you love it! The most enthusiastic zombie lover will win :)

The rules: You MUST be between the ages of 12-18. You MUST be able to pick up your prize at one of the 21 Sno-Isle Libraries (or be on the bookmobile route). Find a library near you. Note that you can only enter ONCE!

Just post your link, reason, your first name and your local library by the end of Monday November 2nd...then check back to see if you won (winner will be announced on Tuesday November 3rd). Do not include your email in the post...we will ask you to contact us later with that info, as we want to keep it private.

Love Zombieland? The Library Has Tons of Zombies.

Check out our great new Zombie list, with all kinds of great books and dvds you will enjoy.

Some favorites include:

Shaun of the Dead

Pride and prejudice and zombies

World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war

The walking dead. Book one : a continuing story of survival horror

The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Pride and Prejudice...gone wild?

One classic book that all sorts of people seem to love is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. It has been made into many great movies, there are websites dedicated to it, and now there are a couple of cool variations coming out.

The first one I'm excited to see is a comic book version to be put out by Marvel Comics! How fun is that? There is a great article about it over at Newsarama: Pride, Prejudice and Comic Books: Talking to Nancy Butler .

The other spin-off I can't wait to read is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! Talk about crazy mash-ups!

What is your favorite incarnation of this great classic?